Inner Exploration Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Conceptual Framework Centered on Learners' Inner Subjectivity

When AI makes answers easy to obtain, what should education help learners develop? This conceptual paper introduces Inner Exploration Education, centered on learners’ inner subjectivity and the principle “You are your own teacher.” It develops a five-stage path: returning to one’s center, generating awareness, knowing oneself, understanding others, and helping others return to themselves. The framework describes a learning ecology in which educators offer relational support, learners retain agency, and AI supports recording, reflection, questioning, and meaning construction. It proposes educational design principles and directions for subsequent empirical and cross-cultural research. Author: Lingyao | Independent ResearcherORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4516-5692ISNI: 0000 0005 3180 9600 This is a conceptual framework, not a report of empirically demonstrated effects.